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Half Pint- Golden Bear, Sacramento Ca 7/20/25 4K UHD Complete Set w/Schoeps audio Lightweight

Tonight is the night! We have Bastards of Young, The Blessing and Half Pint at Old Ironsides. I am going to try to make it, but my old body woke me up at 5am and my son has soccer until sundown. We’ll see.

Jim McLain posted the Blessing’s first show over on his channel, but no Half Pint has gone up yet. Here you go. Half Pint was Donny from Lightweight and a lady whose name I did not catch- they wrote these songs as a duo years ago, even before Lightweight was active. They then resurrected the project with a full band. Lys, if I got any of that wrong, please correct me.

Anyway, I think they are on first so hurry and check this out and head to Old I tonight.

Video equipment: Panasonic Lumix G9ii w/Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 12-60mm F/2.8-4 ASPH lens
Audio Equipment: Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp lined in to the G9ii.. which always sounds weird. I need to look into that.

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Blizzard of Al- Golden Bear, Sacramento 5/11/23 Schoeps CCM4 Audio Master incomplete

Another bonus post. I had family stuff until 8:30 last night so I got to the Golden Bear as quickly as I could, but missed almost all of Blizzard of Al’s set.. which is unfortunate because what I heard was really good. Damn. This is the debut of the new(to me) Schoeps CCM4 microphone setup that I got last week. Man, do they sound good. Thanks to Keith Kreider for selling them to me- love them already.
By the way, you might hear me talking at the start of this. Someone kindly told me that I had a tag hanging off of my hat and since I am socially awkward, I had to tell him the entire story of WHY it was there. Anyway, the hat is a keeper and the tag is coming off.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Somy A10 digital recorder

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Monster Treasure- Golden Bear, Sacramento 5/11/23 4K UHD with Schoeps CCM4 audio

Monster Treasure is probably the best regional band that I had not seen yet. They rarely play out, maybe once or twice a year if that. I bought their first album when it came out (thanks Dal) and loved it. They can reproduce the harmonies live- no studio trickery with these ladies. I was outside talking to friends and missed the first 5min or so. In fact, we were all talking and I was like “is a band playing” and someone told me they had started their set. D’oh.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Canon HF G60 w/ Schoeps Audio CCM4 audio synched.
Audio equipment: Schoeps CCM4, Naiant tinybox, Sony A10 recorder
Audio/Video synch in Pluraleyes 4

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Motorcycle- Golden Bear, Sacramento Ca. 5/11/23 4K UHD Video w/ Schoeps CCM 4 Mic audio

This set was a surprise. I saw Motorcycle’s first show ever, back in 2019 at the Blue Lamp. They have added quite a lot to their sound- Chris now uses pre-programmed keyboard (and even backing vocal?) tracks to really fill out the band’s sound. That can’t be easy to do in a small club when you can’t always hear what’s happening, so kudos to the band. I loved it and I hope to catch another show soon.
It looks like they had a slight change to their lineup- that’s definitely not Sarah Shintaku on drums- looks like it could be an unshaven Matt Mason. Not really sure.
Anyway, Motorcycle has some stuff on bandcamp- 5 releases with a total of 6 tracks.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Canon HF G60 w/ Schoeps Audio CCM4 audio synched.
Audio equipment: Schoeps CCM4, Naiant tinybox, Sony A10 recorder
Audio/Video synch by Tromster

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